tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28887403788236622652011-07-07T23:51:29.721-04:00Predehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12267986078837669473noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888740378823662265.post-66285998293442788952010-07-27T19:19:00.004-04:002010-07-27T19:43:34.317-04:00

The Anime News Network has reported that the original Project A-Ko anime film has been license rescued by Discotek. Project A-Ko was one of Central Park Media's first anime licenses, and was released on VHS in 1990. Central Park Media later released Project A-Ko on DVD multiple times, along with licensing and releasing the sequel OVAs. CPM also produced an American comic based on the Project

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Calaggie of Nigormisen blog has noted that the bid for the "Anime Channel" trademark, has doubled to $10,000. I wrote a few months ago that I asked Callagie to check up on the Central Park Media Bankruptcy proceedings. He checked his PACER account and then posted a story about how the trademark for the "Anime Channel" which CPM owned the rights to, was being sold for $5,000 to an unknown

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I asked calaggie of Nigorimasen blog over twitter, to check up on the Central Park Media bankruptcy proceedings, and recently there have been some new developments. Summed up pretty much what has happened is the "Anime Channel” trademark, which CPM owned, has been sold to another party for the sum of $5,000.A “Response Due Date” action was filed on March 17th, that also set March 29th as the due

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Anime News Network has confirmed my previous story, that Media Blasters has indeed license rescued both the OVA and TV series of Record of Lodoss War. Media Blasters has not yet announced when they will be releasing the titles on DVD.

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I was in Media Blaster's store, Rare Flix over 3 weeks ago, and two Media Blasters employees told me they had licensed rescued Record of Lodoss War, and assured me both the OVA series and the TV series would be re-released together in the upcoming months. Both employees also represent Media Blasters at cons around the country. However they have yet to announce this formally for whatever reasons.

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Another Central Park Media title, this time "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend" (as well as it's as well as its movie compilation),released under the Anime 18 lable, has been license rescued. This time by Media Blasters. "Urotsukidoji" was the first hentai to ever play in the movie theaters (nation-wide) in the United States, in 1992. The title was in threaters both as the dub and the sub. It

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I have a sneaking suspicion that Yoshiaki Kawajiri really likes John Carpenter movies. Because Demon City Shinjuku could be summed up as an OVA that mixes both Escape from New York and Escape From L.A. (despite being made after this OVA) together, has a little bit of Halloween thrown in there, and some has supernatural elements added for good measure. Good thing I'm a Carpenter fan then,

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THEM anime reviews has posted their top 20 anime series, movies, and OVAs of the last decade (2000-2009) and 2 Central Park Media titles are on the list. They name Cat Soup number 16, and Alien Nine number 5. They write "(Cat Soup) is a banquet of the bizarre, more impressionistic than spectacular. It's more apt to weird you out than give you a visceral thrill, but it does serve as a reminder

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I've always been a huge fan of Gothic Horror. Dark, creepy, and bloody shows have been things that have always interested me. I also love a good vampire story. Now add to that the fact that I enjoy a good mystery or crime drama, and the reason I decided to review this next show should be a no brainer. As the back cover proudly exclaims this "combines urban crime drama and horror motifs". Ah, it's

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Yoshiaki Kawajiri has directed a number of titles, but I think perhaps this is my favorite so far. Kawajiri is famouse for directing Ninja Scroll, the Highlander anime, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and a number of other titles over the years. Once apon a time he had quite the fan following the US, but now he is barely mentioned. Perhaps someone will talk about Ninja Scroll and mention his name in

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The Anime Network has added several more titles from Central Park Media, to their online player. These titles are now streaming, legally on the Anime Network. The titles Anime Network has added includes The Haunted Lantern (live Action), Odin: Starlight Mutiny (anime film), and the two documentaries: Otaku Unite and Ultimate Crop Circles . SX AniMedia reports that two other titles from CPM,

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Today I will be reviewing a favorite mystery anime of mine. In fact the best mystery movie I've seen in a awhile, anime or otherise. Besides being a mystery, it's also set far in the future. Who new mystery and science fiction went so well together? The movie is called They Were Eleven.This movie was originally released in movie theaters in Japan in 1986. Central Park Media released a subtitle

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Jannik Hastrup's animated film, "The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear" is will be coming to The Anime Network's online player soon. The animation was produced by Les Armateurs studio in 2002. Les Armateurs is the production studio behind the Academy Award nominated movie "The Triplets of Belleville" . Central Park Media licensed and released the film in 2005. The English dub production was done in

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This is not really news, but I think it's very interesting and worth posting.Recently there have been some interesting Central Park Media/US Manga Corps trailer reels posted on youtube (by other fans). I thought I'd post links to the videos here for those who are interested. Many of the titles in the reels are from the VHS era. These are some great nostalgia trips for some that's for sure...Oh

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This is a movie I’ve wanted to review for a very long time now. But I wanted to take my time with it and get everything down right, because I wanted to do it some justice. Anyway this movie is called A Wind Named Amnesia and it’s easily one of my all time favorites. I first saw this movie on Comcast’s Anime Selects on Demand Channel. CPM used to put tons of titles from their catalog up on Anime

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Since Central Park Media filed for bankruptcy on April 27, 2009 , news regarding the bankrucpty has been pretty scarce. However the Nigorimasen Blog (Calaggie) recently reported that "Two Notices of Abandonment of Property were filed along with corresponding Certificates of Service on July 27th and on August 17th.". John O'Donnell ,the debtor’s principal, has stated "the property of the Debtor

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I am very sorry that I haven't had time to write the review I kept promising. But I finally had some spare time, and so here it is.Silent Service is a made for TV movie, created by Sunrise that originally aired in Japan in 1996. It was originally released on DVD by CPM in late 2003. It was later re-released in 2005 and that is the verson I have. I found out about this anime by reading some

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After over ten years of operation, Central Park Media's main website has finally gone offline. The website is Centralparkmedia.com . The url now leads to a page that only states "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)". However you can use an internet achive site to retreive most if not all of the information (and some of the pictures, but not all) CPM had up on their sites. The Wayback Machine has

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Central Park Media paid for an add to be printed in the Anime Expo 2009 convention's programming guide. To read the entire add, click here (courtesy of Anime News Network)The add says:"To all CPM Fans and Friends: It has been a wonderful twenty years working to find great anime and manga to bring to the attention of American fandom."In addition to this message they also included a quote from the

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Although this was already stated in the last update of this blog, I feel the need to repeat this one part, explain it better, and make it more noticable. I have commented on it on Anime on DVD forums already, but I still feel the need to make it clear. MYC & Associates, the liquidator for Central Park Media, listed AD Vision as a company that the now bankrupt Central Park Media, has a

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The Nigorimasen Blog has outlined more information regarding the Bankrupcty of Central Park Media. They write "It’s Still Early On In CPM’s Bankruptcy Proceedings..." and that MYC & Associates(CPM's liquidator) "has linked to a Schedule of Assets that contains 23 pages of 547 copyrights relating to releases; two pages of trademarks including “Anime Alley”, “Anime Today”, and “Mangamusic”; office

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Anime News Network has reported that MYC & Associates, the appointed liquidator to Central Park Media's assets has has provided a list of CPM's former assets, including the partial listing of copyrights. Anime News Network also writes "However, CPM did not retain permanent ownership of most of these titles, so many of these copyrights cover only the materials that CPM itself produced, such as

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Anime News Network reports that ADV Films has added another Central Park Media title, Darkside Blues, to their August DVD releases. They use Rightstuf listings of sales in August as a source. The DVD release is scheduled for August 18th. Darkside Blues was produced in 1994 by J.C. Staff. It is based on the manga by Hideyuki Kikuchi (famouse for Vampire Hunter D, Demon City Shinjuku, A Wind Named

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Note: This isn't really "news" per say, it's just a popular podcast that talked about Central Park Media and John O'Donnell. Still thought I'd report it.It is very interesting to listen to it. They discuss John O'Donnell, Central Park Media, many of their titles, and their downfall in great detail. It's very informative, and well worth the time to listen to it. Their final note about O'Donnell

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Well with all the bad news of CPM filing for bankrucpty, and then lots of things in my personal life, I haven't gotten to review a DVD from CPM in awhile. But now that everything has calmed down, I decided to review a little known OVA, Hello Hedgehog: Domain of Murder . I found out about this anime by reading Justin Sevakis's "Buried Treasure" review of it. He made it seem interesting, and I

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Many of Central Park Media's titles are still legally avaible for download (to buy or to rent) on legal video-on-demand (VOD) online sites (totalvids, greencine) and on iTunes. CPM series are also still avaible to watch on ATAKU TV, an all anime cell phone TV channel. It is not known at this time how long these titles will remain avaible to purchase, or to watch legally, due to CPM's recent

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The independent ADV Nation Blog reports that ADV Films has "license rescued" (or is distributing) several Central Park Media titles. The titles are: "Now and Then Here and There" , "The World of Narue", "Grave of the Fireflies", and "MD Geist" . They use Rightstuf.com as their source. ADV Nation reports that the titles will be released in July, 2009. These are the first titles that have been

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Erica Friedman ,the President of Yuricon & ALC Publishing, wrote a "eulogy" blog about Central Park Media, following their recent bankrupcty, on AnimeVice News . She writes, "Circumstances were very cruel to the owners of CPM. I know that they have been struggling as hard as they can to come back from the above losses, but obviously were unable to after several attempts, after rethinking and

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Anime News Network reports that Central Park Media has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy "and has closed its doors as of Monday. " The company owes US$1.2 million to creditors and has not released a new title for 12 months. ANN writes, "under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States will face liquidation". Chapter 11 and 13 bankruptcies alow a company to restructure and continue to

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"Revolutionary Girl Utena", a title licensed by Central Park Media (under their Software Sculptors line) will be airing on The Anime Network on Demand, starting in August. The airing is scheduled to begin on August 8th, 2009. Although the title is from CPM, it was sub-licensed though Enoki Films (a firm that works as a middle-man between Japanese and US companies). It is Enoki Films, not Central

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In March 2007 Central Park Media launched a label known as "Below the Radar". This label licenses live action films, documentaries, and other cult titles that are "below the radar". As Anime News Network writes : "Below The Radar will be the source of "desirable oddballs" – those offbeat, non-mainstream motion pictures and programs that have always had a devoted consumer base. The label, to be

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Today I decided to start something a little different. Everyone once in awhile I will give a review on one of CPM's anime DVD's/box sets. I'll review the anime it's self, the extra features, and give a little insight into how I found this anime or why I decided to purchase it. I'll try to comment on the dub as well .Today's anime is none-other then the hilarious Animation Runner Kuromi! This is

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John O’Donnell, president and founder of Central park Media, said that he will first focus on CPM Press's "Be Beautiful " line which was releasing many yaoi manga series recently. Yaoisuki blog reports that there was a licensing issue with many of the titles that were licensed from Biblos. Publishers weekly writes that Biblos was bought out by Libre in 2006, and that Libre sent out a public

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Recently Nigorimasen blog has reported that "During CPM’s panel at last December’s NYAF/ICv2 Conference on Anime and Manga, President John O’Donnell said that one major cause of their troubles was the collapse of retailers Musicland and Tower Records and that he’s never tried to engage in a “heavy bidding war over popular titles in a volatile market”. Nigorimasen Blog also writes that Central

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"A Geek by Any Name" blog has reported that John O’Donnell said at NYAF07 that "they are still recovering from all their various issues. They have no NEW titles but they’re working on making older titles more accessible." The blog says that Central Park Media is not dead, and they are working on re-releasing many of their older titles. The blog also says that John O'Donnel commented on the

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Central Park Media is a multimedia Entertainment Company based in New York City, New York. It was founded in 1990 by John O'Donnell. Their three main product lines are "Central Park Media", "U.S. Manga Corps", and "Software Sculptors", and all release anime in North America. At their peak Central Park Media had the licenses to over 85 Anime TV Series, OVA's, Movies, and TV specials. U.S. Manga

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Welcome to Central Park Media News.This is an unofficial site, operated by a fan, and is completely independent. We aim to cover news and opinion on the company Central Park Media (CPM) and it's subsidiaries (U.S. Manga Corps, Software Sculptors, Asia Pulp Cinema, CPM Press). Central Park Media releases anime, manga, manwha, hentai, and live action titles in North America. We aim to help cover

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